De Van Brienenoordbrug is een van de drukste bruggen van Nederland en is toe aan groot onderhoud. Voor de automatisering van de beweegbare delen van de brug wil @rijkswaterstaat generieke, standaard Industriële-Automatisering (IA) bouwblokken inzetten.
Wij hebben het 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗷𝗲𝗰𝘁 𝗩𝗲𝗿𝗻𝗶𝗲𝘂𝘄𝗲𝗻 𝗩𝗮𝗻 𝗕𝗿𝗶𝗲𝗻𝗲𝗻𝗼𝗼𝗿𝗱𝗯𝗿𝘂𝗴 (𝗩𝗕𝗕) onderzocht op verzoek van de minister van Infrastructuur en Waterstaat.

Lees het advies op onze website: https://www.adviescollegeicttoetsing.nl/documenten/2026/05/26/advies-vernieuwen-van-brienenoordbrug

Sovereignty Is Engineered, Not Procured

Europe often asks whether it can build a company like Palantir: a software champion capable of serving intelligence, defence, law enforcement, crisis response, cyber defence, and public-sector decision-making at scale.

The usual answer is that Europe lacks data, capital, talent, or legal room. I do not think this is the full story.

The capacity is there. The data is there. The technical talent is there. The public-sector problems are real, urgent, and interesting. What is often missing is the will to tackle complex programmes seriously, over time, with teams that are allowed to build, fail, iterate, and take responsibility.

Europe does not need a Palantir clone. It needs the capacity to build strategic software for intelligence and security missions without outsourcing the core of its thinking.

#opensource #intelligence #cybersecurity #palantir #europe #sovereignty #intelligence

🔗 My full blog post about the topic https://foo.be/2026/06/Sovereignty-Is-Engineered-Not-Procured.html